Found a queen during Scout Camp in the high sierras, need ID

[TbugTheAntMan]

So I found an ant queen wandering around Camp Whitsett in the high Sierras in early July 2019. She’s black with a red thorax, and I’m pretty sure she might be a carpenter ant. Anyone know the species? I put iCloud links to the images below.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0bcf0OfBBmicO4ZcBHG9bHM5w
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0qiZmKh9fEASgETyNjzLVSaPA
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0RoTib_XY3CdRG0Fn-qNiVw9Q
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0ThyVN-y3u5N1lQ9cHXBIUsUg
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0L1DNOidOFadVSaZ9X6pfgVKQ

[CabboAntsGuy]

The pictures were a little hard to read, but if she is a big ant, Like two cm. Then it might be a Camponotus novaboricensus.

[antnest8]

do you have a measurement?

[antnest8]

from here size in the fourth picture she seems to small for a camponotus. I wish i was better at ant IDing

[Good2Know15]

So I found an ant queen wandering around Camp Whitsett in the high Sierras in early July 2019. She’s black with a red thorax, and I’m pretty sure she might be a carpenter ant. Anyone know the species? I put iCloud links to the images below.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0bcf0OfBBmicO4ZcBHG9bHM5w
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0qiZmKh9fEASgETyNjzLVSaPA
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0RoTib_XY3CdRG0Fn-qNiVw9Q
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0ThyVN-y3u5N1lQ9cHXBIUsUg
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0L1DNOidOFadVSaZ9X6pfgVKQ

That's 100% a Formica sp queen. Formica Moki perhaps?

[TbugTheAntMan]

Well, when I thought she was camponotus, I went shopping for a hybrid nest. The camponotus one was out of stock, so I got Formica. So if it IS Formica, then I made the right choice.